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First Measurement of Hard Exclusive π- Δ++ Electroproduction Beam-Spin Asymmetries off the Proton

  • CLAS Collaboration
  • University of Connecticut
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Florida State University
  • University of Virginia
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Temple University
  • Florida International University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of York
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • Duquesne University
  • University of Brescia
  • Fairfield University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • George Washington University
  • Old Dominion University
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Ferrara
  • Lamar University
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • A. Alikhanian Yerevan Institute of Physics
  • Ohio University
  • University of South Carolina
  • Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria
  • Mississippi State University
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

The polarized cross-section ratio σLT′/σ0 from hard exclusive π-Δ++ electroproduction off an unpolarized hydrogen target has been extracted based on beam-spin asymmetry measurements using a 10.2 GeV/10.6 GeV incident electron beam and the CLAS12 spectrometer at Jefferson Lab. The study, which provides the first observation of this channel in the deep-inelastic regime, focuses on very forward-pion kinematics in the valence regime, and photon virtualities ranging from 1.5 GeV2 up to 7 GeV2. The reaction provides a novel access to the d-quark content of the nucleon and to p→Δ++ transition generalized parton distributions. A comparison to existing results for hard exclusive π+n and π0p electroproduction is provided, which shows a clear impact of the excitation mechanism, encoded in transition generalized parton distributions, on the asymmetry.

Original languageEnglish
Article number021901
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume131
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jul 2023

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